FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[rooski]

Roos lose.

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I hate to see the report on Osterman. We all do, no doubt. May God bless you Tyler.
Centre is fortunate to have an experienced, quality senior to bring in. I wish them well.

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Congrats to todays winners. Nothing like a Saturday afternoon in the fall.

[Ron Boerger]

Centre 20 - Sewanee 0.
They did not play well offensively, but defense obviously did well.
This is a good news bad news game as starting QB, Tyler Osterman broke his ankle and is out for the remainder of the season.
Hopefully the team rallies around his replacement, senior, Grant Conliffe. Ironically, Conliffe was the starter last year until Sewanee ended his season with an injury.
I haven't seen any stats on this game yet, but I can tell you that Centre had 3 td's called back. They cannot continue to rack up penalties and remain unbeaten.
Go Colonels!

That is a tough break (no pun intended) for the Colonels and for Tyler Osterman.  I hope his recovery goes well and wish Conliffe well taking over as starter.   Unfortunately it's too late in the season for Tyler to get a medical redshirt.

The SCAC race continues to intrugue with DePauw, Millsaps, Trinity all with one loss, Centre undefeated but having games at both Millsaps and Trinity, and Austin in the wings waiting to play spoiler.  Rhodes is just having a tough season and Sewanee has struggled to find anything on offense so far.     

[DPU3619]

Still early, but I think DePauw's finally got a handle on things.  The Spud we saw today was like the Spud we saw towards the end of last year.  I'm beginning to think that the Centre result was just an anamoly anomaly.  It may not be likely that we see many of those type days the rest of the year. 

I thought the defense was great except for the 3 plays that they let Galatas get free.  They got plenty of pressure on Graves today, and the good thing was that they did it with just the front four 4 for the most part.  They were able to drop all 7 and still force a lot of early and errant throws. 

Now DePauw is at struggling Rhodes and then has a week off to get ready for Trinity.  Everybody in this camp is rooting against Centre, obviously.  Maybe DePauw got a favor today in the Osterman injury.  Hate to have it happen like that, but you'll take an advantage wherever you can get one in this conference.  Way too early to be thinking about tiebreakers and things, but DePauw is, in essence, going to need Centre to lose twice (IF - key word in this sentence - IF DePauw can win out in the conference).  Either that or win the 3 team tiebreak, but let's not even think about that right now.  In any event, my point is that I don't believe anybody wants to get to that Bell game again and be in a "win and you're in" scenario.  Puts a lot more pressure on that football game when you don't really need it.  There's enough as it is.

[Ron Boerger]

Hey, some folks at Colorado College are still trying to get football back - here's the latest:

Nick Mogno    October 3 at 5:40pm  Reply
Players, Alumni, Family, and Friends of CC Football -

You likely haven't heard much over the past few months about the fight to save and resurrect CC Football. However, a group of Alumni and Parents have been working hard for the last six months to address the fact that our program was canceled without warning or a call for help. The working group is in the process of establishing the Washburn Foundation, a charitable organization who's mission is to "resurrect and sustain football and its 127 year tradition at Colorado College."

Next weekend at Homecoming, the foundation invites you to join a line-up of events Friday and Saturday, including the First Annual Student/Alumni Flag Football game Saturday afternoon on Washburn field. Football has been played at CC every year since 1882, and this year will be no different. You can see the weekend's full schedule here:

http://www.washburnfoundation.org/homecoming-events/

Whether playing in the game, or just watching and reconnecting with old friends and teammates - pull your favorite CC football clothing out of the closet and come show your support! Washburn Foundation t-shirts and lapel pins will be on sale to raise money for the cause. Please read more about the foundation, register for the game, donate, and more at washburnfoundation.org.

[Tex]

Darn sad about CC football.  Last year, my wife and I traveled up for the game and had a great time.  What a beautiful campus with a long football tradition.  Some folks just don't get it.

[TigerDad]

TU Tigers took care of business at home (again) yesterday.  Solid performance the young O-Line as Trinity gained 268 yards on 47 carries and another 150 by air 10 of 13 with no picks.  Balanced attack.  Biel hit two long FGs early. Caleb Urban picked up two long TDs and both QB's scored on the ground.  The Black Flag bent for that first BSC TD, then got their backs up!  Big game by Carpetyan (7 tackles) and Satterwaite (5 with 1 sack).  Nice job, guys.

Tex, I want my TigerPics!

[D3_DPUFan]

I thought the DePauw defense was played very well yesterday---save of course for the three long balls. The front four got pressure on the quarterback and they relaly shut down a good rushing attack. What stuck out to me was the Tigers tackling in space...Millsaps has made a living off of getting the ball to talented players who make you miss and then they're off to the races. Linebackers and DB's came up and made plays yesterday...no better example than Wrona's huge stop on the two-point conversation attempt late in the game. That is a very good Millsaps team...very talented and, I think, just as fast on both sides of the ball as last year.

[Tex]

TU Tigers took care of business at home (again) yesterday.  Solid performance the young O-Line as Trinity gained 268 yards on 47 carries and another 150 by air 10 of 13 with no picks.  Balanced attack.  Biel hit two long FGs early. Caleb Urban picked up two long TDs and both QB's scored on the ground.  The Black Flag bent for that first BSC TD, then got their backs up!  Big game by Carpetyan (7 tackles) and Satterwaite (5 with 1 sack).  Nice job, guys.

Tex, I want my TigerPics!

I'm uploading all 1400+ right now.  Check Facebook for about 30. 

[Patriot_Pride]

Tex,
Was way off about the Tigers having troubles at home... well played game Saturday it sounds like. I guess being back home after a month, they were ready to let it all hang out.

As for my predictions, I went 3-2 last week (lost Millsaps & Trinity games) which puts me at 8-2 in two weeks in the W-L column.

Sad to hear about Osterman as well, that should shake up the SCAC standings down the stretch, unfortunately. Congrats to all this weekend's winners, hopefully we'll have some solid football games again this weekend.

[Tex]

It ain't over till the carbohydrate-challenged lady sings. 

[Fripp52]

Great game at DePauw this weekend.  I would have felt that win or lose.  But, obviously, winning makes it a whole lot better.  I thought the offensive line was much improved.  Spud was rarely hit.  I don't think they had a sack.  And we were able to run the ball with some success.  I didn't like the predictability early in the game when 78 came in and played tight end.  We ran on first down almost every time.  Spud was Spud and Koors was Koors.  I have to give props to Mulligan.  That kid can play for me any day.  He gets the wind knocked out of him after the last TD sucks it up and snaps on the PAT.  Defensively, they were well-prepared and executed very well, except as Wes said, those 3 long passes.  Without them, Millsaps is held to about 150 yards.  I give Millsaps a lot of credit.  They kept coming back.  I am glad the game did not go to OT.  Also, as someone said, nice gesture on the field honoring Coach DuBose's wife.  My best to her and their family.  Now, we need some help from our friends in Texas and Millsaps to give Centre a couple of blemishes.

[Tex]

It's a crazy year in the SCAC so far. 

[Tacttm1]

Mr. Tex, that is a very succinct and accurate statement!

I think my next set of predictions will be done via coin flip!

[D3_DPUFan]

...not to mention Havercamp kicking after back surgery this week who ends up with a game-winning 42-yarder.  Congratulations to the Tigers.

I think that was something that got lost by some in Saturday's game. Havercamp's 3 FG's were huge...including that 42-yarder that proved to be the difference. It is great to have him back as he is a real weapon....

[DPU3619]

Yeah, Tex, you're right, but I think the big thing you're seeing (with the exception of the DPU-Centre result) is that a lot of these teams are struggling on the road.  I'd guess that's due to the youth more than anything.  Trinity has scuffled bigtime on the road to start the year.  Millsaps has 2 home wins, 2 road losses, and a road win by a point.  BSC is the same way, although they haven't played anybody good at home. 

We have proven over the years that this conference has a better home field advantage than the average conference, probably due to the travel.  But, when you start throwing in these top tier teams with new quarterbacks like Trinity & Millsaps are doing, I think you increasing that margin even more.